[Pkg-exim4-users] no results on ACL file

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 05:05:02PM +0200, Thijs Koetsier | Exception wrote:
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: pkg-exim4-users-bounces at lists.alioth.debian.org 
> > [mailto:pkg-exim4-users-bounces at lists.alioth.debian.org] 
> > Namens Marc Haber
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:33:12PM +0200, Thijs Koetsier | 
> > Exception wrote:
> > > I've installed Exim4.5 on Debian 3.0 and my new mailserver 
> > works just 
> > > fine and now I'm tuning some things before taking it into 
> > production.
> > 
> > You are using exim4 on Debian 3.0, aka woody? sarge was 
> > released two months ago.
> 
> I know, I'm using a Dell system with RAID and hyperthreading. I found a
> customized Dell-ISO on the Debian/Dell-site, which was Woody. I've updated
> it to 2.6.8-2-686-smp.

And where exactly did you get the exim4 debs from?

> > Additionally, if you picked the default options during the 
> > debconf part of configuration, your exim is most probably 
> > using the configuration found in 
> > /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template, not the split files in 
> > /etc/exim4/conf.d.
> 
> Are you sure?

Being a member of the Debian exim4 maintainer team, yes, I am pretty
sure.

> If I make changes in -config_check_rcpt like
> drop
>     log_message = match sb1-xb1.spamhaus.org
>     dnslists = sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
> 
> they work; mail gets dropped.

Looks like you're using the split config option.

> I see the template file, but it doesn't seem to be used. How do I make sure?

The decision whether split or non-split config is used can be seen in
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf.

Now, you _really_ need to read
/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz.

Greetings
Marc

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